Shift-JIS, also known as MS Kanji or SJIS, is an encoding system for
Japanese characters, developed by Microsoft Corporation.
It encodes the characters from the
JIS
X 0201 (ASCII/JIS-Roman) and
JIS
X 0208 (Japanese) character sets as sequences of either one or two bytes.
Characters from the
ASCII
/JIS-Roman character set are encoded as single bytes between 0x00 and 0x7F
(ASCII) or 0xA1 and 0xDF (Half-width katakana).
Characters from the
JIS
X 0208 character set are encoded as two bytes.
The first ranges from
0x81 - 0x9F, 0xE0 - 0xEA, 0xED - 0xEE (not
JIS:
NEC-
selected
IBM
extended characters),
0xF0 - 0xF9 (not
JIS:
user defined),
or 0xFA - 0xFC (not
JIS:
IBM
extended characters).
The second byte ranges from 0x40 - 0xFC, excluding 0x7F (delete).
